The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-20
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buttons, and even manifests decided i'artiality
for such delicacieS as broken bits of glass.
THE suicide of an army officer who had gone
about San Francisco under a half dozen differ
ent names, and whose identity they are unable
to discover has been pulling the police OF that
city.
TUESDAY. JUNE IA, was formally celebrated in
Hartford, Conn.,. as the 10th anniversary of the
Stars and Stripes as the national emblem. A
liberal display of the national bunting was the
chief feature
AN experienced sportsman says that the hard
est things to shoot are bats. They are quick,
make sharp tnrns in all directions and are diff
cult to kill Shot holes through their wings
will not bring them down, and a story is told
of one bat which few away with thirty holes in
its wings.
NEARLY two centuries and half ago Herr
Rahmsauer arrived in North Carolina. Some of
his descendants,a are still living near Fort Worth
in Texas. Il found, writes a gentleman who
recently had occasion to look them up that
the family name had undergone the following
changes: Ramsauer, Ramsaur, Ramser Ralnslr,
Slrram, RAM Sheep, Lamb"
PROF.. CARL NEVER, who made a balloon
ascension at Erie the other day, attained
altitude of more than - 600 feet without suffer-
ing any inconvenience whatever. At that height
he says: My pulse stood at ~ and my respi-
ration was 20 a minute, or about twice faster
than ordinary, but | felt first rate and the air
seemed bracing and eXhilarating. The Their
mometer registered 62o.
JAMES NOLAN, an eccentric bachelor of Kear-
ney, N. j.. was taken seriously ill early last
week, and the physician that was called to at
tend him vainly tried to get him to relieve him
self of a heavy pair of trousers he had on. The
probable reason of his refusal was developed
when he died on Wednesday, and notes, money
and evidences of Indebtedness amounting to
nearly $1,000 were found in his pockets.
GERMANS are halinS as boon to mankind the
invention by MesSrs. Lorenz, of Carlsruhe, of n
steel-clad bullet with slight alloy of antimony,
which, in addition to increased powers of pene-
tration. gives much tiatter trajectory and is
warranted to pass through mans body with
out causing unnecessary discomfort This IS
killing two birds with one stone. 1t will kill
two, or even three, men at one shot if they hap
pen to stand in the way.
In one year in Vienna over 200 notices of
eviction were served for non-payment of State
and municipal taxes. The population of the
city proper being at the time roughly $4,000, it
follows that about one in every twelve Viennese
had the legal sword suspended over him. In no
fewer than IA, 795 cases the evictions were &C
tually carried out. Equally suggestive is the
fact that in 1885 alone outdoor relief had to be
given there to 10 86 persons, while 35 08 arrests
were made for vagrancy.
BEN PERLEY PooRE wrote his life of Grant in
two months $500 words day.. Victor Hugo
wrote novel in three weeks on a wager Dr.
johnson wrote '.Rasselas'' in the nights of one
week in order to pay for his mother funeral
expenses. Longfellow wrote his poem The
Wreck of the HeSperus' between supper and
bed time. "Sheridan's Ride was dashed off by
Buchanan Reed one morning in less time than
it took Sheridan to do it. Sir Walter Scott wrote
his $4,000 novel, Woodstock" in three
months.
THE Hilty boy, who few months ago lost
berland CMd) Necs, is a remarkable lad in
many respects. 1t will be remembered with
what nonchalance he bore his sufferings, and
that in an amazingly short time after the opera
ton he was out on the streets, as bright and
clipper as you please. His misfortune has not
prevented him from enjoying himself in many
respects as other boys do. For instance, he
plays marbles, and plays far better than many
boys who have two arms, eight fingers and two
thumbs. In short, he is a champion of the ring
He does much of his playing on the West Side
and it is said he has broken" number of the
best players over there. OF course, the reader
will have by this time guessed that he plays
with his toes, That's what he does, and his
shots show wonderful accuracy and force
Perhaps, as he grows up, he ~can train these
substitutes for fingers to do useful and even ar
tistic work. There are well-authenticated cases
of this having been done.
The Baltimore american says that while rail-
road laborers were excavating rock about four
charge of powder revealed an opening into a
cavern of yet unknown extent. During the
afternoon it was explored for upwards of mile,
and wonders rivaling in extent and grandeur
those of the celebrated Luray Cavern were
found. Half a mile under ground stream OF
clear running water was discovered, which, for
purity and sweetness, is unequalled by any OF
the mountain springs Stalactites of every con
ceivabe shape and size were found scattered
through the various chambers, and the ex-
plorers looseDed some beautiful specimens and
carried them to room near the entrance The
galleries and apartments all have smooth stone
floors, and the former range from seven to
fifteen feet wide by as many high, while many
chambers are thirty to fifty feet in width by
seventy-h five or hundred long and are forty or
fifty feet to the vaulted roof. No evidence of a
former visitation by human beings, or even ami
mails, have so far been detected.
THE officers of the American Board of Foreign
Missions at Boston have received tidings of a
famine prevailing on the Ciicia plain, in Asia
Minor region about one-half as large as the
State of Massachusetts, bordering on the Medi-
terranean Sea and embracing the ancient cities
of TarsuS and Adana The harvest time has
just passed, but not single sheaf of grain will
be cut in all the plain ordinarily so fertile Rev.
G. F. Montgomery wrote on May from Adana
of a severe winter with much suffering, during
which the people had lived on in the hope of
| better times at hand, but the spring is worse
| than the winter. Already most of the farming
| villages in the vicinity are deserted. Numbers
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| furniture, cows and oxen on the street at one
| fourth of their worth. Cows are being sold at
| thirty piasters each, about 81 %. A committee
| appointed at Adana has presented an appeal to
| benevolent people in America. This section
of the country contains over 100, 900 inhabitants,
| of whom $1,000 are destitute. An earnest ap-
| peal for aid is made by the American Board
THE Prince of Montenegro and his family
| left Vienna very suddenly for France says the
| Vienna correspondent of the London Times,
''the Prince having, it is said, been advised by
his doctors that the waters of Baden would do
him no good. This is the official explanation of
| the matter. more probable cause of the
| Princes hasty departure is being whispered
namely. this, that his hghness received a polite
but plainly warning that the policy he has been
| following toward Austria is one which if not
abandoned, must inevitaby-bring him to trou-
BILE. The Prince on all his visits to
| Vienna has been accustomed to raise
| little loans for public works in
his mountainous prncipality. Through high
influences, exercised with more kindness than
confidence, the money which he sought has
always been forthcoming; but the public works
have been left unexecuted. Instead of cutting
roads, the poet Prince has bought rifles, revolV-
ers and cannon and has scarcely denied that in
case of disturbances in the Balkans he would
watch his opportunity for overthrowing King
Milan, rousing Herzegovina, and trying to re-
store the old Servian empire of Stephen
Douchan the Great, with himself as king"